1. Release Notes for Oracle Linux 9.5
  2. New Features and Changes
  3. Virtualization

Virtualization

The following features, enhancements, and changes related to virtualization are introduced in this Oracle Linux 9 release.

QEMU Updated to Version 9.0.0

The qemu-kvm packages provided as part of the Default KVM stack are updated to version 9.0.0.

nbdkit Updated to Version 1.38

The nbdkit package is updated to version 1.38 to include many bug fixes and enhancements. Network Block Device (NBD) is a network protocol for accessing block devices over the network. Block devices are hard disks and things that behave as hard disks such as disk images and virtual machines. nbdkit is a toolkit for creating NBD servers.

See https://libguestfs.org/nbdkit-release-notes-1.38.1.html for more information